Revista da FAEEBA Educação e Contemporaneidade - Uneb

EDITORIAL
Education, Art and Ludicity is the theme of the number 25 of the Revista
da FAEEBA – Educação e Contemporaneidade. Without any doubt, it will let
a mark in this journal’s history, not only for the new theme embraced and for
its importance and scope but also for the significant contribution of the GE-
PEL – Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação e Ludicidade from the
UFBA. We open this way a new framework of scientific cooperation, this
time with an universitary institution outside the UNEB but from the same city
(Salvador). We hope that it may constitute the beginning of a fertile academic
exchange with other institutions, in and out of Bahia, possibilitating a greater
integration between education research groups.
All the texts aim at showing the vital importance of art and ludicity within
the process of educational practices, in a formal or larger context. The first
paper, from Cristina Maria D’Ávila, analyses present practices and shows the
overdimensioned role of the didactic book which obliterate a ludic, pleasurable
and creative pedagogy. In this sense, Maria José Etelvina dos Santos investigates
ludic activities as resources from the educational practice focussing on
the pupil emotional development. From her part, Nilce da Silva points out some
necessary characteristics for the elaboration of XXIst century pedagogy based
upon creativity.
Follow various texts relating fieldworks upon the theme. Ilma Maria Fernandes
Soares explains the teachers’ beliefs about ludicity and playful activities,
which, in a certain way, explain the teachers’ resistance to a work framed
by ludicity. From her part, Sueli Barros da Resssureição shows the importance
of lucidity in professional education within the affective involvement and reenchantment
of teachers’ work. Next paper, from Rilmar Lopes da Silva tells
about a pedagogical experience of Theater Education which aims at education
citizens able to be creative, critic, participative and autonomous. Ricardo Japans
analyzes in a detailed way, the infantile plastic and graphic development
and the teachers’ education in the teaching of art in the first years of primary
school.
Ilene Ancient Canada’s paper describes the importance of ludicity during
the conscientization process of young and adult while learning how to read and
write. Finally, Susana Couto Pimentel discusses the potentiality of games in
the promotion of learning processes and special students’ development.
The third section gives a special attention to Art, in the words of Miguel
Almir Lima de Araújo, onthologic expression of the human condition, with its
potential of transfiguration of the real through our blatant sensibility and imagi-
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